[ih] The UCLA 360/91 on the ARPAnet/Internet

[Dave Crocker]

On 5/12/2012 11:54 AM, Robert Braden wrote:
 > The side discussion of the two IBM 360/91s at UCLA would
 > seem to have little to do with Internet history. However, I
 > want to point out that the "other" 360/91 at UCLA was in
 > fact a relatively early (1971) ARPAnet host, and it became
 > an Internet host after the Big Switch in Jan 1983. It supported
 > Telnet, FTP (a rich version, suited to the baroque IBM file
 > system), and SMTP.  This machine was distinguished by being


It also supported a remote job entry protocol.

My job was documentation for the CS arpanet project and local 
timesharing (sigma executive) o/s.

We would do our text creation on the SRI NLS system, ship it down to ISI 
thru FTP and then RJE it to Bob's /91 for output, because it had a 
high-speed upper/lower case printer that could produce 8.5x11" sheets...


d/
--
  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net